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Behavioral Approaches to Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Burton V. Reifler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Extract

This discussion must begin with a consideration of the assumptions in the mandate given to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) from the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate report states that the broad objectives of the plan to be developed by the NIA are “to slow the rate of deterioration from Alzheimer's by 5 years during the next 5 years, and by 10 years within 10 years.”

Type
Future Directions
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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